Nicolas Cage and Tiffany Haddish.
JC Olivera/Getty ImagesTiffany Haddish experienced her first orgasm at age 17 when she a Nicolas Cage movie – and she told him years later.
The 44-year-old actress reminisced in her latest book of essays titled ” I curse you with joywas released on Tuesday, May 7 – and explained that she had arranged to meet her Face/Off with his then-boyfriend Jerry.
“We started kissing and then we really got into it. His hands were everywhere – on my face, in my hair, on my thighs. He did a little t-ty action and then he slid his fingers up my skirt,” she wrote. “I closed my eyes and gave in to the pressure. Just as it was about to start, I opened my eyelids and there was Nicolas Cage on the screen.”
She added: “His piercing blue eyes looked into my soul as I experienced a meaningful moment for the first time in my life.”
From that moment on, Haddish wrote that she “always felt a little something” whenever she saw one of Cage’s films. Then they got the chance to work together.
Tiffany Haddish
Paul Morigi/Getty ImagesHaddish starred alongside 60-year-old Cage in the 2022 film The unbearable weight of enormous talent.
“What Nic Cage brought with him was the memory of my first Big O. There was a movie playing in my head, but it wasn’t the one we were making.” Haddish wrote, noting that she just “stared into those blue eyes as if I hypnotized.”
Haddish had initially refrained from telling Cage her orgasm story, fearing it would be “very inappropriate,” but he encouraged her to tell it.
Gina Gershon and Nicolas Cage in “Face/Off.”
Cover images“So I told him all about what happened to me Face/Off” she remembered. “There. I said it. Either I could do this job now or I would be fired. Nicolas Cage’s eyes crinkled as he laughed out loud. ‘That’s crazy. That’s a crazy story.'”
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Haddish wrote that telling her story to Cage was “a fresh start” and that she could “relax and say my lines.” The comedian joked: “I got a little tingling feeling when I looked into his eyes during the playback.”
During each chapter in I curse you with joy ended with a lesson from Haddish, there was none in this particular essay.
“Just a story about how I couldn’t do my job until I shared the unbearable weight of my first big O with Nicolas Cage,” she joked.